The black woman, Kelly, became the star of the park. She reappeared later. The diamond was locked in a safe in the park, and she continued to work.
After she appeared, many treasure hunters gathered around and reached out to shake hands with her. This was a tradition in the park. The lucky hand that touched the gem could inherit some luck.
People kept chatting with Kelly, asking her for tips on finding diamonds.
Kelly had now calmed down. She was in high spirits as she dealt with the crowd's questions. She carried the bucket and tools to Li Du's side.
Sophie smiled and said, "Congratulations, Madame Andela. Luck has favored you. This is really something to be envious of."
Kelly held her hand and smiled excitedly. "Yes, yes, I got God's attention. I seized this opportunity. Do you know what I named the diamond?"
Sophie asked curiously, "What is it?"
Kelly said happily, "It's Esperanza, my daughter's name. It's Spanish and means' hope. ' She is my hope, and this diamond is also my hope. "
"It's a good name," Li Du said.
Kelly said, "Who says it isn't? Who says it isn't? It's the stone of hope! "
She used Sophie as a confidant and started talking. "My daughter got into New York University. She chose law, but I don't have the money to send her there. She doesn't have a scholarship, and it's hard for her to apply for one. And my two sons, they are very sensible. They even want to drop out of school to help their sister.
"Now, there's hope. I found a diamond. I didn't have much hope when I came here, but now I've found a diamond. Or rather, I just wanted to find two small diamonds and earn a few thousand dollars.
"But I worked for ten months, twenty hours a day, and couldn't find anything. Every day, my daughter encouraged me. She said I would find a diamond sooner or later. Thank God, I really found one. "
Recalling the past, she didn't know whether she was excited or sad. Her eyes turned red and she cried.
Sophie comforted her softly and introduced Li Du to her, saying that he could help her sell the diamond.
Kelly obviously didn't believe it. She answered vaguely, telling Sophie that she had the contact information of a local diamond buyer and that the diamond would sell for a good price.
At the same time, she told Sophie, "No one here believes there are big diamonds, but I found one. Faith, confidence, and attentiveness are the key. There might still be a big diamond hidden in the big stones here. "
Her words made Li Du's heart skip a beat. Previously, Li Du had been focusing on the soil. He had subconsciously ignored the larger stones and looked for the smaller ones, which he then searched for gems.
This was a common practice for everyone in the park. In the past eight years, no one except Kelly had found a diamond that was more than five carats.
Perhaps he could pay attention to the garbage area of the park, which was the gravel disposal area.
Everyone searched for gems among the stones. First, they found some stones that were mixed with gems. These stones were hope, but they were also obstacles and disturbances.
Therefore, after everyone used a sieve to sift out the stones without diamonds, they would gather them and throw them into a fixed area in the northwest corner of the park.
Over time, a large number of gravel appeared in the northwest corner. These gravel had been carefully selected by people. There were no diamonds in it. It was all useless and worthless gravel, so it was called the garbage area.
Li Du felt that there might be diamonds in this garbage area.
Of course, everyone was very careful when selecting the stones. No matter how small the diamonds and gems were, they would still be picked out. However, everyone only cared about the small stones. The larger stones were not selected and were basically thrown out of the sieve on the upper layer.
Therefore, he felt that there might be no small diamonds in the garbage area, but there would be big diamonds.
Li Du took Godzilla through the park to the garbage area in the northwest. He was ready to search the area carefully.
The garbage area covered an area of about half an acre, like a gravel yard. There were many small stones piled high, undulating, like a cemetery.
There were many people looking for gems in other parts of the park. There were fewer people here, but there were also people working. Obviously, he was not the only one who thought of this.
There was no need to use running water to wash the soil here. They just needed to pull the stones.
However, there were too many stones, and the diamonds were small. This was much more difficult than looking for fire opals in the Petrified Forest Park.
Most of the people who came here to look for diamonds were just inspired. They came to work for a while, but soon found that it was impossible to find diamonds in this place and eventually left.
There were too many stones and too small, and diamonds were often too small. People might be able to find a very small area in a day, and the possibility of finding diamonds was even lower.
A Mexican man with dyed green hair found nothing after searching for a while. He angrily kicked the gravel pile and cursed, "F * ck, there's no sh * t here. Damn it, it's better not to have any hope in this place …"
The person next to him complained, "Ha, are you regretting it? I've told you many times, don't come here, don't come here. Look at Rodin, how many years has he been here? What did you find? "
As the man spoke, he pointed forward. Li Du looked in the direction indicated by his arm and saw a rough-skinned, bald black man looking for something in the stones.
The green-haired Mexican man argued, "There are too many stones here. If there were less, we might have found something. I believe there must be diamonds here, but there are too many stones!"
His friend rolled his eyes and said, "Of course, there are several trucks of gravel here every day. It's all from the park. Every night, they secretly throw gravel into the ground. It's really bad!"
The Crater of Diamonds Park was only 37 acres in total. It was estimated that hundreds of millions of people had excavated it for hundreds of years. Even though it was sand, every grain of sand had been searched.
By the time the Arkansas state government took over the park in 1972, it had been ravaged beyond recognition.
Since then, the government had taken a series of measures to save the park's appeal, such as vigorously promoting the diamonds found in it and filling it with gravel.
It was common knowledge to look for diamonds in gravel. At that time, the park manager was very smart. He thought that rather than looking for diamonds, it was better to look for gravel.
Therefore, every once in a while, the park would take advantage of the flattening of the land to throw a lot of gravel in, increasing the work and fun of finding diamonds.
There was a constant supply of gravel to be excavated, which meant that there was a constant supply of diamonds, which was the real attraction.
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